Asatru Folk Assembly - November 03, 2023


Where Did I Come From？ (Academy Storytime)


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18 minutes

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1,789

Sentence count

144

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2

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1

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Have you ever wondered where we came from? Well, we're going to find out today! Join us as we find out in this episode of Where Did We Come From? by folk builder Jim Cummings!

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00:00:00.000 hey everybody it's time for another story are we ready
00:00:26.160 Do you remember I asked last week, where did we come from?
00:00:31.400 Did you guys figure it out?
00:00:33.660 Well, we're going to find out today, okay?
00:00:37.660 And before we do that, it's the last week of the school year.
00:00:41.740 We're almost done.
00:00:43.000 Time to wrap it up.
00:00:44.640 Have you guys learned a lot this year?
00:00:47.180 All right.
00:00:48.060 Well, let's have a look at the front of the book, okay?
00:00:51.800 There it is.
00:00:53.760 Where did I come from?
00:00:55.420 A book about origins for us, the true children like you, by folk builder Jim Cummings.
00:01:03.740 All right. Are you ready? Let's go see what the book has.
00:01:09.680 I got real small again. Do you remember how I did that? One, two, three. Yay.
00:01:15.020 All right, so this book was written for some very special people.
00:01:22.360 Brian, Gordon, Mason, and Madeline.
00:01:29.640 All right, let's see what it is.
00:01:33.300 Have you ever wondered where you came from, where everything came from?
00:01:39.600 Hmm.
00:01:40.360 Long, long ago, our people wondered the same thing.
00:01:48.980 Moved by the gods, they created what we call lore.
00:01:53.720 The lore tells stories to help us understand things.
00:02:00.740 Hmm, do you know who that is?
00:02:02.620 He's wondering too.
00:02:04.240 in the lore we hear about a time when nothing existed yet there were no people no stars or
00:02:16.400 planets there was not even a sun all there was was a big chasm like a deep valley in the middle
00:02:25.980 of the universe. This chasm was called Gnuungagap. Gnuungagap. Gnuungagap.
00:02:43.560 Ooh, scary. Big void in the middle of nothing.
00:02:47.880 In Ganungagap, the matter and energy that everything, everywhere is made from came together.
00:03:00.400 Our people long ago thought of the matter and energy as ice and fire.
00:03:08.320 There was also what we think of as magic in the big chasm.
00:03:12.100 We can think of this magic power as the will of Odin, or Odinic force, or life force.
00:03:24.420 That's right, even before Odin lived in Asgard, his will existed in Gnungagap.
00:03:36.900 Fire and ice in the big chasm, Gnungagap.
00:03:42.100 The will of Odin did not want to just stay in a big chasm in space with matter and energy.
00:03:54.100 It wanted to have new ways to use its power to create and to bring order.
00:04:02.100 So the will of Odin used the matter and energy to create order and life.
00:04:09.100 The first creation was Yggdrasil.
00:04:18.080 Yggdrasil is the basis of all order in the cosmos.
00:04:28.280 Our ancestors thought of Yggdrasil as a giant invisible ash tree.
00:04:34.880 The roots and branches reached to every world.
00:04:43.860 Yggdrasil
00:04:45.220 But having order and Yggdrasil were still not enough.
00:04:55.040 The will of Odin wanted more life,
00:04:58.840 and for each life form to be better than the ones that came before.
00:05:02.880 before. The next creatures to form were a giant named Ymir, Ymir, Ymir, and a giant
00:05:16.880 cow or aurochs called Audhumbla. These beings from the lore show life slowly becoming better,
00:05:36.240 but they still had a lot of chaos in them.
00:05:39.840 See, the cow, Althumbra, and the giant, Ymir, they're still not right. 0.97
00:05:54.580 Ymir was a very strange being, sort of like a monster.
00:06:01.200 He still had too much chaos in him. 0.89
00:06:03.720 But remember, the divine will wants the living creatures to get better and better.
00:06:12.480 So, from Ymir himself came more life.
00:06:19.180 The lore tells us that under his left arm, a male and female giant grew.
00:06:27.120 They were named Mimir and Bestla.
00:06:31.200 Mimir and Besla were not monstrous like Inir, but beautiful.
00:06:39.240 They were the first of the good giants, or Etans.
00:06:44.700 These Etans are forces that are helpful to the gods and men.
00:06:52.440 You see under his arm?
00:06:56.140 Mimir and Besla. 0.98
00:07:01.200 Ymir's chaotic nature also made bad creatures. 0.89
00:07:07.480 From his feet came a horrible three-headed giant named Berglmir. 0.92
00:07:14.680 This was the first of the bad giants, or Thursis.
00:07:20.620 These giants hate the order of the universe and everything the gods have made.
00:07:28.160 They fight against men and the gods to destroy everything.
00:07:37.480 Between his feet, we get the big mean giant, three heads, Berglmere. 0.97
00:07:45.980 Adhumbla, do you remember her, the giant cow, Adhumbla also helped to make better kinds 1.00
00:07:57.140 of creatures. She licked the ice in Ganungagap, and slowly as she licked away, a man was revealed.
00:08:08.980 His name was Buri. He was big, strong, and beautiful, but he still had chaos in him too.
00:08:18.980 He drank milk from Althumbla, and he actually gave birth to a son, Bur. 0.99
00:08:28.200 Now, we all know that men can't have babies. 1.00
00:08:33.480 This shows the chaos that was still a part of Buri. 0.59
00:08:38.260 But as the divine will pushed things to get more perfect, his son Bur was not like him. 0.64
00:08:46.480 Bur married the good giantess Besla.
00:08:54.260 Bur and Besla.
00:08:59.780 Now, Ymir and Alhumbla made new beings in very strange ways. 0.84
00:09:09.320 This was because they still had so much chaos in them.
00:09:13.360 But as more life was created, the creatures became closer and closer to what the divine will, Odin's will, wanted.
00:09:26.800 And this meant that children should come from the union of a man and a woman, like Burr and Besla.
00:09:35.580 They had three sons, Odin, Vili, and Vey.
00:09:44.580 Wait a minute, did we just say that Bur and Besla had a son named Odin?
00:09:51.780 Yes, the divine will now had made life good enough that it could embody a living being, our great god Odin himself.
00:10:05.580 See here, we have Odin, Vili, and Vey.
00:10:13.580 The gods spent time learning and growing more powerful.
00:10:19.580 There are many good stories telling how they did that.
00:10:23.580 But in this book, we want to continue with the story of how the lore tells us things came to be.
00:10:30.580 came to be. While the gods, Odin and his brothers, were working to get better and stronger,
00:10:39.580 Ymir and Althumbla were still there. They didn't change or get better. They were the
00:10:47.540 same old chaotic beings. Remember that Althumbla licked the ice in Gnungagap for something 1.00
00:10:56.200 to eat. You might wonder what Ymir ate. Well, he drank the milk from Althumbla. But Ymir 1.00
00:11:07.340 was stupid and greedy. He wanted more than the milk, so he killed Althumbla to eat her. 1.00
00:11:17.200 Oh no, he killed the Alhumbra. 0.95
00:11:23.860 When Odin, Vili, and Vey heard that Ymir had killed Alhumbra, they decided that they had had enough of him.
00:11:34.560 His time was past as life had moved on to a higher level. 0.77
00:11:40.200 The gods killed Ymir. They used his body to create the greater universe. 0.98
00:11:47.200 worlds, suns, and stars, the earth, which we call Midgard, water, plants, and animals,
00:12:00.200 everything we see around us now in the natural world.
00:12:04.860 So we can see how, through Odin's will, the raw matter and energy in Gnungagap
00:12:12.620 was used to form Ymir and Althumbra.
00:12:17.760 Then beings got better and wiser
00:12:21.080 until nature was ready for the gods themselves
00:12:24.920 to be born into it.
00:12:28.480 Finally, the gods took the raw matter 0.67
00:12:31.460 and energy from Ymir 0.96
00:12:33.860 to make the beautiful natural universe
00:12:37.120 we live in still today.
00:12:38.940 Oh no, but it's going to be for better. It's going to make the universe.
00:12:48.600 But you may ask, what about people? Where did we come from?
00:12:55.520 Now we will tell that part of the story.
00:12:59.180 The gods had made a beautiful, orderly universe.
00:13:03.900 But they knew they still were not done.
00:13:07.620 They wanted helpers, men and women, who would help them to keep order and make things better.
00:13:16.520 One day, Odin, Vili, and Vey were walking near the sea on the beautiful world they had made.
00:13:26.380 They found two trees growing so close together the branches seemed connected.
00:13:33.660 Our lore tells us these trees grew from seeds that fell from Yggdrasil.
00:13:41.460 So we know they had a special connection to that great tree that is the basis of all order in the universe.
00:13:52.080 You see the two trees? They came from Yggdrasil.
00:13:56.300 Odin and his brothers took these two trees and formed the first two of our people.
00:14:07.660 Ask, Amman, and Imbla, a woman.
00:14:13.360 Odin sent his breath into them, making them his special people.
00:14:18.720 With his breath, they also received a spirit or soul.
00:14:25.000 Odin's brother Vili gave them speech, hearing, and sight.
00:14:30.700 He also made their forms beautiful to behold.
00:14:35.060 The third brother, Vey, gave them good minds that could think through problems,
00:14:42.340 and also gave them the ability to move on their own.
00:14:45.680 You see, this is Asg and Imbla with Odin, Vili, and Vey as they get ready and get all their gifts from the gods.
00:15:01.120 Odin told Asg and his wife Imbla that they were created as perfect beings.
00:15:07.800 He told them to be the parents of our world, our people.
00:15:11.400 He also reminded them they must do their best to live according to nature and help to uphold nature's law.
00:15:21.760 Asg and Embla listened to Odin.
00:15:25.440 They had 24 children, 12 sons and 12 daughters.
00:15:31.580 They taught their children to worship the gods, how to work for the things they needed in life,
00:15:38.100 and to always strive to become better.
00:15:42.700 Over many years, our people grew in number,
00:15:47.100 making many wonderful things.
00:15:51.160 One day, two of those people,
00:15:54.340 your mother and father, met.
00:15:57.680 Though the love of your parents,
00:16:00.700 another child of Odin was born.
00:16:03.140 You see, Asken and Imbra, there are twelve children?
00:16:12.060 Sorry, twenty-four children.
00:16:15.240 Twelve girls and twelve boys.
00:16:21.120 Now you have learned how the divine will of Odin brought life into the universe.
00:16:28.060 You know how the will made the life it created better and better.
00:16:31.840 until the gods were ready to be born into the universe themselves.
00:16:37.180 And you know that the gods' best creation was our people.
00:16:43.260 Always remember that the gods put some of themselves into us when they made us.
00:16:49.440 Odin and all our gods live inside of you,
00:16:53.080 and they want to help you to become better and better, just like them.
00:17:02.400 See, little kids, boy and girl, just like you?
00:17:06.360 Remember, Odin's always there with us.
00:17:12.180 And that is the end of our story.
00:17:15.100 Is everybody happy?
00:17:16.800 Did we learn something?
00:17:18.720 Are we ready for the next thing?
00:17:22.200 Well, if you remember, let me get big real quick, okay?
00:17:26.600 One, two, three.
00:17:29.740 there we go all right so that was the end of the story again and guess what school's almost over
00:17:39.720 so it'll be a little bit before you get any more stories but i promise i'm working extra hard to
00:17:46.440 get my friends to come help us we're gonna have lots and lots of stories next year way more than
00:17:53.600 we had this year you might see those again too you want to hear those stories again
00:17:58.500 All right. Well, everybody have fun. Enjoy your summer and be good. Okay. All right. Bye.
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